Category: Legal

Attention to All Heads of Courts in Nigeria: Issuing Affidavit of Loss of Documents Without Police Report Encourages Crimes

Affidavits are written depositions or declarations made on oath before a person authorized by law to administer oaths or take declarations. See section 10(1) of the...

Kogi: Lawyer Demands Reinstatement of Abalaka as Ejeh Ofu

A Port Harcourt based legal practitioner and solicitor, Chief Festus Ogwuche, has written to the Kogi state government demanding the immediate and unconditional...

Corruption, Sharp Practices in Lower Bench: What Chief Judges of Various States in Nigeria Must Do

The lower bench refers to the judges of the inferior courts which constitute the courts that were not expressed established under section 6 of the Constitution of the...

Kogi CJ Tasks Lawyers on Application of ‘Electronic Evidence’

Acting Chief Judge of Kogi, Justice Henry Olusiyi, has tasked legal practitioners to enhance their knowledge on the application of technology in the delivery of justice....

Kogi LG Polls: Court Remands Traditional Ruler, 10 Others Over Alleged Homicide

A Senior Magistrates’ Court in Lokoja on Friday ordered that a 69-year-old traditional ruler in Adavi Local Government, Asema Uka (Otumi-Ajoko) Momoh Nasir and 10...

Retired Judges Begs Kogi Governor to Pay Their Gratuities

Retired judges in Kogi state has called on Governor Yahaya Bello to pay gratuities and benefits accrued to them and relatives of deceased colleagues. The immediate past...

2020/2021 Legal Year: Kogi CJ Assures of Speedy, Efficient Administration of Justice

By Friday Idachaba. The Judiciary in Kogi is to focus mainly on speedy, efficient and effective administration of justice in the 2020 to 2021 Legal Year. The acting...

Don’t be Swayed by Parochial Considerations, Kogi Governor Tells Judges

=Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has urged top jurists and legal luminaries in the state to observe only the letter and spirit of the law and shun any invitation or...

Kogi: Cleric Challenges Judiciary on Justice, Equity in 2020/2021 Legal Year

By Friday Idachaba Minister in charge of 1st Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Lokoja, Rev. Dr Paul Frank, has charged the Judiciary to be committed and prepared to...

Falana Asks Court to Order NCDC to Establish COVID-19 Testing Centres in Kogi

Activist lawyer, Femi Falana SAN has asked the court to order the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to establish COVID-19 testing and treatment centres in Kogi...